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Linear time-distance helioseismic inversions are carried out using several filtering schemes to determine vector flow velocities within two $\sim100^2\,{\rm Mm^2}\times 20\,{\rm Mm}$ realistic magnetohydrodynamic sunspot simulations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 K. DeGrave , J. Jackiewicz , M. Rempel

Kernel approximation is widely used to scale up kernel SVM training and prediction. However, the memory and computation costs of kernel approximation models are still too high if we want to deploy them on memory-limited devices such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Zijian Lei , Liang Lan

Results of forward modelling of acoustic wave propagation in a realistic solar sub-photosphere with two cases of steady horizontal flows are presented and analysed by the means of local helioseismology. The simulations are based on fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Shelyag , R. Erdelyi , M. J. Thompson

This article presents a quantum computing approach to designing of similarity measures and kernels for classification of stochastic symbolic time series. In the area of machine learning, kernels are important components of various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Vanio Markov , Vladimir Rastunkov , Daniel Fry

Machine learning models can represent climate processes that are nonlocal in horizontal space, height, and time, often by combining information across these dimensions in highly nonlinear ways. While this can improve predictive skill, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Savannah L. Ferretti , Jerry Lin , Sara Shamekh , Jane W. Baldwin , Michael S. Pritchard , Tom Beucler

Meridional flow is thought to play a very important role in the dynamics of the solar convection zone; however, because of its relatively small amplitude, precisely measuring it poses a significant challenge. Here we present a complete…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-02 J. Jackiewicz , A. Serebryanskiy , S. Kholikov

Large-scale plasma flows in the Sun's convection zone likely play a major role in solar dynamics on decadal timescales. In particular, quantifying meridional motions is a critical ingredient for understanding the solar cycle and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Shukur Kholikov , Alexander Serebryanskiy , Jason Jackiewicz

In this paper, we show that efficient separated sum-of-exponentials approximations can be constructed for the heat kernel in any dimension. In one space dimension, the heat kernel admits an approximation involving a number of terms that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Shidong Jiang , Leslie Greengard , Shaobo Wang

Models like support vector machines or Gaussian process regression often require positive semi-definite kernels. These kernels may be based on distance functions. While definiteness is proven for common distances and kernels, a proof for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Martin Zaefferer , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , Günter Rudolph

This is the second of a series of three papers that present a methodology with the aim of creating a set of maps of the coronal density over a period of many years. This paper describes a method for reconstructing the coronal electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Huw Morgan

Domain specific (dis-)similarity or proximity measures used e.g. in alignment algorithms of sequence data, are popular to analyze complex data objects and to cover domain specific data properties. Without an underlying vector space these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Andrej Gisbrecht , Frank-Michael Schleif

We describe how long-term solar system orbit integration could be implemented on a parallel computer. The interesting feature of our algorithm is that each processor is assigned not to a planet or a pair of planets but to a time-interval.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Prasenjit Saha , Joachim Stadel , Scott Tremaine

This note proposes rapidly convergent computational formulae for evaluating scattering kernels from radiative transfer theory. The approach used here does not rely on Legendre expansions, but rather uses exponentially convergent numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Hans Engler

Helioseismic signatures of dynamo waves have recently been discovered in variations of the solar differential rotation, offering valuable insights into the type of dynamo mechanism operating in the solar convection zone. To characterize…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Krishnendu Mandal , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Valery V. Pipin , Sylvain G. Korzennik

We constrain the velocity spectral distribution of global-scale solar convective cells at depth using techniques of local helioseismology. We calibrate the sensitivity of helioseismic waves to large-scale convective cells in the interior by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. M. Hanasoge , T. L. Duvall , M. L. DeRosa

Since the first observations of solar oscillations, helioseismology has been one of the most successful fields of astrophysics. Data of high quality were obtained through the implementation of networks of ground-based observatories such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-20 G. Buldgen , A. Noels , S. Salmon

Local helioseismology has opened new frontiers in our quest for understanding of the internal dynamics and dynamo on the Sun. Local helioseismology reconstructs subsurface structures and flows by extracting coherent signals of acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao

Departures from standard spherically symmetric solar models, in the form of perturbations such as global and local-scale flows and structural asphericities, result in the splitting of eigenfrequencies in the observed spectrum of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-03 Srijan Bharati Das , Tuneer Chakraborty , Shravan M. Hanasoge , Jeroen Tromp

Context. Far-side helioseismology is a technique used to infer the presence of active regions in the far hemisphere of the Sun based on the interpretation of oscillations measured in the near hemisphere. A neural network has been recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 E. G. Broock , T. Felipe , A. Asensio Ramos

Although helioseismology has been used as an effective tool for studying the physical mechanisms acting in most of the solar interior, the microscopic and dynamics of the deep core is still not well understood. Helioseismological anomalies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-28 Ilídio Lopes , Joseph Silk